Re: svnsync experience

I can confirm this memory leak - after copying around 10000 revisions,
my svnsync process is now using over 500M of memory.

Is there a report of this in the Subversion issue tracker? I can't find
one, but I'm not very familiar with the interface.

regards,

--
Jon Ashley
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> From: grimm26@gmail.com [mailto:grimm26@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mark
> Sent: 31 January 2007 17:21
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: svnsync experience
> 
> For the initial setup, you don't really _have_to use svnsync 
> to get the repository copied.  You should be able to use 
> whatever means (rsync, ftp) to get a copy of the repository 
> to the mirror location and then mimic what svnsync init does 
> by setting some revision properties on rev 0.
> You need:
> svn:sync-from-uuid : <uuid of source repo> 
> svn:sync-last-merged-rev : <set to current youngest rev> 
> svn:date : <set to a zulu time like 
> 2006-12-29T22:40:20.478163Z> svn:sync-from-url : <svn url of 
> the source repository>
> 
> Then, set up the svnsync hooks you need and let her rip.
> 
> 
> On 1/31/07, Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> wrote:
> > I'm in the process up setting up backups/read-only mirrors for 
> > svn.plone.org using svnsync and so far my experience is somewhat 
> > sub-optimal. I'm wondering if that is specific for my 
> setup, or if I 
> > am hitting some svnsync problems.
> >
> > I need to replicate three repositories, totalling somewhat over 55k 
> > changesets and about 1gb of data combined. There are two 
> problems I am 
> > seeing:
> >
> > - svnsync appears have a memory leak. Looking at the process listing
> >   on every synced changeset it looses between a hunderd kB to over
> >   a megabyte of data. With 55k changesets needing to be 
> processed that
> >   is somewhat problematic.
> >
> > - svnsync is slow: it processes one changeset every 3-5 seconds. The
> >   latency between the machines is 160ms and neither of them are
> >   overloaded.
> >
> > Combined this means it takes me about a week to setup one 
> mirror (and 
> > I need to setup two) for the repositories and requires me 
> to manually 
> > restart the svnsync process regularly to prevent the machine from 
> > running out of memory. I'm really happy to have a tool like 
> svnsync, 
> > but currently it is slightly painful to use.
> >
> > Are there things I can tweak or look into that can help?
> >
> > Wichert.
> >
> > --
> > Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>    It is simple to make things.
> > http://www.wiggy.net/                   It is hard to make 
> things simple.
> >
> > 
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> Mark
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> for he will always be happy."
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